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S.C. girl, 16, hunts gator with crossbow
COLUMBIA, S.C., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A 16-year-old South Carolina girl may hold the record as the state's youngest female to bag an alligator, a state alligator expert said.
Cammie Colin, who won one of 1,000 slots in an annual lottery for permission to hunt an alligator, headed out before the sun rose Sunday to hunt her prey in the headwaters of Lake Marion, S.C., The State reported.
Hunting alligators at night said Jay Butfiloski, an alligator expert with the state Department of Natural Resources.
Colin's hunt was a team effort, which involved shooting the alligator with a crossbow with a line attached. The animal then pulled the boat, with five team members inside, for over an hour, until it wore out. Then family friend and guide Jay Iadonisi shot the animal in the head to kill it.
Colin said.
Colin's family now has a refrigerator full of alligator steaks, and she has a new nickname at school --
Logs smash into home for the third timeORTRASK, Sweden, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A Swedish man said he is repairing damage his house incurred when it was struck by a truckload of timber for the third time.
Erold Sigurdsson, 65, of Ortrask said he heard the familiar sound of a timber truck driving around the corner while he was in his attic Thursday, The Local reported.
Sigurdsson said.
He said lumber trucks have lost their loads along the sharp turn and sent timber rolling into his home twice before.
he said.
This time, Sigurdsson said the logs ripped his front porch from his house, punched a hole in his front door and busted eight windows. The runaway timber also crushed the roof of his car.
Man injured by cow fallingFORT PIERCE, Fla., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Emergency responders said a Florida man sustained non-life-threatening injuries when a cow fell on him at a dairy farm.
St. Lucie County Fire District spokeswoman Catherine Chaney said crews responded to the dairy farm near the Okeechobee County line shortly before 4 a.m. Friday after receiving reports of a man being injured by a fallen cow, The Palm Beach Post reported Friday.
Chaney said.
Chaney said the man was air lifted to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Authorities did not say whether the cow was injured.
Seniors protest toilet paper suspensionsSHOREWOOD, Wis., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Four suburban Milwaukee students suspended for toilet papering their high school campus have asked to have their punishment revoked, officials say.
Dean Schultz, interim director of instruction for Shorewood schools, is deciding whether to uphold the one-day suspensions or expunge them from the senior boys' records, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Friday.
The school district says it has notified both students and parents the annual tradition of toilet-papering Shorewood High School prior to the start of classes will no longer be tolerated.
Five senior boys were suspended for the first day of classes last month after police found them among a larger group of students who were hanging toilet paper. They were also issued $177 tickets for disorderly conduct.
Four of the boys are protesting the suspensions.
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